Sunday, 8 January 2017

Vietnam- Understanding the market [Developing Markets Series 1- (South East Asia)]





Vietnam at a Glance

























I am starting a series where I intend to share some of the market stats (including Digital and Social) for all the developing markets. So this is the first series, I am starting off with a very interesting market in South East Asia - Vietnam. In case if you working on your next presentation or looking out for some stats or considering a job, you might find this useful. I will try to add some visuals as well, feel free to use them. Click here to read the second part to get views about Philippines.
*Note- I just want to focus on things which are relevant and not text-heavy..So I am skipping verbose texts and stuff.. feel free to use the graphs/charts/pics..




Vietnam Population, age structure and split






























Vietnam -Ethnic Groups and Population Distribution































Vietnam -2nd among the Top 10 fastest growing economies




















































Digital Device Ownership
















Time Spent by Media Types





Frequency of internet usage




















Social Media Users and share of Traffic




















Top Social Media Platforms in Vietnam




















Top 25 most visited websites in Vietnam





















Facebook Users by age
















Top 10 Brand pages on Facebook



























Top 10 Brands Handles on Twitter




















Top 10 Brands on Youtube






















Friday, 23 December 2016

KPIs for your Digital Marketing Team members

Below is a list of some of the KPIs for the team members of  PPC, please note that this list is not comprehensive and is just for reference.

How do we measure the success? All the KPIs will have a numeric value attached to it and will be conveyed to each team member.  As we move, the progress will be measured against the pre-agreed KPIs

KPIs- Paid Marketing- PPC team
v  Cost per conversion/acquisition
v  Revenue on Ad spend
v  Advertising to sales/leads
v  Click through rate
v  Total Leads generated and Cost per lead
v  Cost income ratio
v  Conversion rate
v  Cost per click and eCPC
v  Quality score- This will lead to Higher Ad positions, Lower CPC, Higher impression share and Lower CPA
v  Total Goal completions
v  Lifetime value of a customer
v  Allocated budget vs Total Spend (keeping ROAS in mind)
v  KPIs for each step in the funnel- For example: visitor to lead, MQL to SQL, visitor to customer etc.
v  Overall website traffic increase- branded vs non-branded keywords

KPIs- SEO team
v  Rank for main converting keywords
v  Rank for secondary keywords
v  Increase in organic traffic and overall traffic volume after the start of SEO activity
v  Increase in number of pages on the site that generate traffic
v  % increase in organic conversions
v  Increase in non-branded keywords
v  Organic Impressions
v  Organic Click through rate
v  Link building KPIs- total links created, number of links from the authority sites, number of link from extremely relevant sites, Inbound links created for a anchor text resulting in Google indexing
v  % increase in referral traffic, referral conversions
v  % increase in brand search traffic and brand mentions
v  % increase in sign-ups, newsletter subscription etc.
v  Goal completions
v  Revenue generated and total number of transactions/booking etc.
v  Page-views, Avg. time on site, pages/session, Bounce rate, unique website visitors
v  Revenue per search visit

KPIs- Social Media Team
v  Link clicks, reach, inbound links generated, blog subscribers, video views
v  Shares , share of voice , net promoter , sentiment,  # of social influencers and comments
v  Time on site, email sign ups, referral traffic, unique visitors, page-views, reviews etc.
v  Brand mentions, community growth, drop off rate
v  Profile visits, post reach, potential reach
v  Active followers /People Talking about
v  Followers/fans, conversions, issue resolved
v  Impressions- How many times the post showed in the news feed
v  Traffic coming from Social Media
v  Leads generated/Action taken on the website, cost per lead, lead conversion rate, LTV
v  Goal completions
v  Retweets, @connects, brand mentions
v  Sales and Average order value/ticket size
v  Revenue generated and Revenue on Ad spend
v  Customer service- Response time, Avg. handling time, First contact resolution, No of questions answered

KPIs- Email Marketing team
v  Delivery rates
v  Open rates
v  Bounce rates
v  Conversion rate and total conversions
v  CTR
v  Unsubscribe rate
v  Spam compliance rate
v  Site traffic
v  Time on site/app
v  List growth
v  Total sales
v  Social growth

Note- KPIs for other teams like Front end coder, design team etc. will be discussed  later on as this depends on the projects at hand and other factors.
Sample KPI for Design UX team :  Quantitative UX KPIs :(1)Task success rate (2) Time on task (3) Use of search vs. navigation (4)User error rate (5)System Usability Scale (SUS) Qualitative KPIs (1) Reported expectations and performance (2)Overall satisfaction



Thursday, 8 December 2016

Affiliate Marketing- Factors to consider before approving affiliates and some KPIs

Things to consider before approving an affiliate

·          Appropriate category- check the category in which the website is. It should not be violence, porn etc.
·          Implement a payout threshold- I Ex:-f you make it $1,000, this means to get a payout, an affiliate should earn $1,000 as commission and not generate $1,000 revenue Affiliate should agree to this.
·          As a good practice, payouts should happen after 45-60 days from the date of sale. This will avoid the affiliate fraud if any. Affiliate should agree to this.
·          Avoid auto approval, approve each affiliate manually after scrutiny
·          Get a proper affiliate management software/tool in place before you start your program- like GetCAKE
·          Website stats- monthly hits, unique visitors, site traffic quality, update frequency, relevancy, website optimized for mobile, check the company records, social reputation and other factors
·          What payout model the affiliates prefer and match it with yours, if it is not a fit there will be issues in future. Check things like cookie window, refunds, attribution modeling , tracking and make sure you both mutually agree on what a definition of sale is
·          Super-affiliates- Make sure you have best of the rewards, incentives and commissions for super affiliates. It should be different from the normal affiliates or else super-affiliates will not be interested
·          Check for invalid URLs and invalid websites
·          Banner overload- make sure that the affiliates does not do that, otherwise it will spoil your brand image
·          Search the affiliates URL on Whois.net. Make sure the email address from the sign-up process is a business email and consistent with the registration information from the Whois search.
·          Approval rate- Low approval rate means low quality traffic, do not pay and if problems exists, disapprove the affiliate
·          Refund rate- If refund rate from a particular affiliate is too high, monitor it. It might happen that the affiliate has run the wrong advertising, do not pay and if problems exists, disapprove the affiliate
·          Chargeback rate- This should not be high, if this is high means something is fraudulent. Do not pay and if problems exists, disapprove the affiliate
·          If an affiliate is asking for very low rates, check the website and do the due diligence.
·          Set the following terms and conditions and make sure affiliate agrees to it and sign the paperwork before you initiate- commission, non-commissionable transactions, level based commissions, product based commissions , payouts rates and duration, payment frequency, timings, minimum payment, one time vs recurring commissions differentiation and other key factors


KPIs for Affiliate marketing- [per affiliate]
o    ROAS
o    Average Order value
o    Total transactions
o    New vs returning customers
o    Revenue growth
o    Customer base growth
o    % of sales coming from that particular affiliate
o    EPC- average earnings per one hundred clicks sent by affiliates to the merchant’s website
o    Conversion ratio
o    Reversal rate- % of transactions that affiliates refer to an advertiser get canceled/voided, and hence the commission gets reversed
o    Sales volumes/orders
o    Network KPIs- recruited affiliates, active affiliates, power ranking
o    Cost per sale
o    Average earnings per click
o    Customer Lifetime value

o    Cost per acquisition